Circuits and Systems Enabling Silicon-Photonics Signaling

支持硅光子信号传输的电路和系统

• 批准号: RGPIN-2015-04120
• 负责人: Shekhar, Sudip
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=637210
• 关键词: Circuits; Systems; Enabling; Silicon; Photonics

Computing and data communications have changed the way we work, communicate, socialize, learn and educate. To maintain and improve our lifestyle, and to solve most of the challenging problems we face as a society, e.g. developing personalized medicine or a sustainable management of energy resources, our need for super-computers and data-centers that can process massive amounts of data with manageable power continues to grow. This need has driven the exponential scaling of CMOS technology and the rise of multi-core and inter-linked data processing and communication in the last decade. However, this aggressive scaling is now being imperiled by the slower pace of scaling of Input/Output (I/O) data links. For example, ultra-high performance computing systems over the next decade are expected to require Terabytes per second of aggregate data throughput over I/O links. Based on the existing trend, this means providing 10 times the I/O bandwidth for 1/10th the power over the next decade, and presents a real challenge that cannot be addressed by standard copper interconnects.

计算和数据通信改变了我们的工作，沟通，社交，学习和教育的方式。维持和改善我们的生活方式，并解决我们作为一个社会所面临的大多数具有挑战性的问题，例如开发个性化医学或能源资源的可持续管理，我们对可以以可管理能力来处理大量数据的超级计算机和数据中心的需求不断增长。这项需求推动了CMOS技术的指数缩放以及过去十年来多核和链接数据处理和通信的兴起。但是，现在，由于输入/输出（I/O）数据链接的缩放速度较慢，这种积极的缩放率正在损害。例如，预计未来十年的超高性能计算系统将需要I/O链接上的汇总数据吞吐量的每秒Terabytes。基于现有趋势，这意味着在未来十年中提供1/10的I/O带宽的10倍，并提出了一个真正的挑战，标准铜互连无法解决。